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Occupy law exists for two reasons:
a) to highlight the complicity of the legal system as part of the broader ‘system’ which concentrates power to the 1% and disenfranchises the 99%. The legal system facilitates and legitimises the destruction of our planet for profit and all the human misery that entails.

b) to advocate a new, positive and just legal framework – including the Community Bill of Rights which promotes local community self-governance – giving power back to the people and making corporations subservient to us. The legal system should promote the health and integrity of the planet and improve the quality of human relationships.

Occupy Law UK meets every 2 weeks on Wednesday evenings. We are inspired by the great work of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in the US: http://www.celdf.org/ and have started promoting the Community Bill of Rights in the UK. We are currently in the process of carrying out research into the legal landscape in the UK as well as speaking to…[Read more]